One of the most pointless conversations in feminism is: "Should a woman want to be pretty?" When obviously, the answer is a woman is allowed to want and be whatever she wants but most women socialized in this culture want to be pretty, yes.
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One of the most pointless conversations in feminism is: "Should a woman want to be pretty?" When obviously, the answer is a woman is allowed to want and be whatever she wants but most women socialized in this culture want to be pretty, yes. And it says absolutely nothing about trans women when we also want to be pretty because we were socialized into femininity just like everyone else.
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You can say the desire to be pretty is submission to patriarchal norms. Okay. But it's worth adding that patriarchy pathologizes this in cis and trans women (e.g., "autogynephilia"). Women who know their own value, as it were, are treated as "jezebels" who sexually manipulate men for their own ends.
Also, female beauty was considered important even in the egalitarian and women-dominated societies we know of such as Minoan Crete.
So eh. Let people do what they want.
